How Do You Knit The Garter Stitch?
Knitting, to borrow a line from author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, is the craft of making fabric with two sticks and some string. The string is more likely to be a yarn, and the two sticks come in many forms. Once you’ve mastered casting on and learned the knit stitch, one of the two basic stitches of knitting, you can learn the first pattern: the garter stitch. Cast on 20 stitches. Grasp the needle with stitches in your left hand with the tip pointed to the right. Take the yarn strand that’s coming from the ball (the working yarn), not the tail left from casting on. Hold your left hand with your palm facing you and bring the working yarn up over your little finger from between the little finger and the ring finger, then down on the outside edge of the pinkie. Wrap the yarn behind the ring finger, up and over the middle finger, and loop it around the index finger. Now place your last three fingers at the back of the needle, keeping the yarn wrapped and your thumb on the front of the needle
